¹¹ In front of them stood seventy elders^(A) of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer^(B) in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense^(C) was rising.^(D)

¹² He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness,^(E) each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord does not see^(F) us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

Idolaters Condemned

14 Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me.^(A)

Rebellious Israel Purged

20 In the seventh year, in the fifth month on the tenth day, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire^(A) of the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.^(B)

³ “Son of man, speak to the elders^(A) of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Have you come to inquire^(B) of me? As surely as I live, I will not let you inquire of me, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(C)’